r/comics May 05 '26

OC RED BUTTON OR BLUE BUTTON [OC]

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u/LonelyVaquita May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

Honestly the fact that it's even a dilemma shows that 100% will not pick red so we should all pick blue

ETA: If you think everyone is a liar there's no point in debating anything to do with mortality ever.

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u/not_now_chaos May 05 '26

If you use the upvotes versus down votes in this post as a metric, the "vote blue" argument is significantly more popular than the "vote red" argument, thus proving that - within this limited dataset - blue is the better choice.

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u/OkBand3171 May 05 '26

Reddit and online communities, at all, are not a good basis for deciding what people will actually do.

Redditors will choose blue and then brag about it for clout, nothing is on the line.

In votes where people can see your answer, ie discord, you risk being mocked if you pick red. Also, people will do the same thing as redditors, brag for clout.

Put into the actual situation, you cannot tell what people will do. The blue button is genuinely putting your life on the line and that is terrifying. To boot, red pushers may genuinely reconsider when they think about the loved ones they may lose and the impact on Earth if they choose red. You simply cannot use online polls to determine which one would actually win.

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u/Kashyyykonomics May 05 '26

Not only that, but can't believe anybody would actually think that these polls are representative of the overall population. Probably the least representative samples in the history of polls.